Many of the women Plath met
at college became her friends for life. This letter to her college
roommate, Marcia Brown, was written a week before her death. Plath
and Ted Hughes had separated the previous October. They were living
at Court Green, a thatched manor house in Devonshire. Plath writes
about her plans to make a life of her own in London with her two
children, Frieda and Nicholas Hughes. Plath committed suicide in
her London apartment on February 11, 1963.